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And that's the heart beat of the u.s. economy, so we've got to keep doing this. >> jon: the chicago museum of science has an actual lunar lander on display. it was intended for one of the apollo missions. i think it was apollo 20 that ultimately never flew, but it is there. i was privileged to climb into it with jim lovell, the astronaut who flew many times, but is probably best known for the apollo 13 mission that never made it to land on the moon and yet was an incredible success in the face of all kinds of adversity. at any rate, showed me that flight computer that lunar lander employed bac...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you've probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it's been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspir...

Certification issue or some problem that they overlooked when they certified the airplane, to ground the airplanes now would be admitting to that. it would be admitting that we did something wrong, and they're not going to want to do that. >> thank you. mary, you said that regulators are essentially betting with their lives of crews and passengers that this won't happen again. explain. >> well, that's right. so what the faa and boeing have said is after the first crash, they said they were going to make changes to the manuals and require classroom training of the pilots, an hour of training. a...

Something wrong. they're not going to want to do that. >> thank you. you said that regulators are essentially betting with their lives of crews and passengers that this won't happen again. explain. >> that's right. what the faa and boeing have said is after the first crash they said they were going to make changes to the manuals and require classroom training of the pilots now or of training. and then immediately after the ethiopia crash the faa issued another guidance, another order that said it was going to order boeing to make additional changes to the actual flight computer. but it also ad...

There was a need to override the system and a mechanism to override the system. >> so the preliminary findings from the indonesian crash, the indonesian crash, i want to stress is there was a bad sensor or the sensor providing bad data to the computer, the onboard flight computer suggesting that the plane was going to stall and so the plane's computers automatically put the nose down to pick up speed, but the pilots were not aware of this new automated system and they tried to pull up on the nose and they were fighting the computer that was pushing the nose down. there was a way to disengage t...